There is a GTK2 product that uses Sqlite3, looks good for Puppy, but it didn't work when I tried it -- but I might have done something wrong.
I can't remember its name, but I did discuss it a couple of months ago on this forum.

I tried compiling it for Puppy, but at the time my skills in that area were underdeveloped and there were a heap of dependencies that I struggled to meet. Maybe that has changed and the time is now right for someone to try again._________________Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't!
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Last time I tried using Base for a real project (with OOo 2.0.## windows) I found it very difficult. Simple things in Access97 like subforms were virtually impossible, and it crashed often. Also from my point of view I like to use Access format, because if I get stuck in OOo I can often do something extra with the Access tools ... but it doesn't seem to support the format anymore.

Another negative for puppy users may be that OOo is quite a large program and not really in the same 'small is good' line of thinking as basic puppy.

On a positive for OOo Base the integration with Calc & Write is excellent and works well for example with single table mail merges. Anything over that though and Access was miles ahead when I tried, but maybe it's improved since then 2.0 series, I did DL 2.2 but haven't really tried yet.

I think the linux world is really lacking quick and dirty development tools like Access & VB. Love or hate them they can do things sooo simply provided you stay within their limits. I know lots of people here and in linux world generally are working on equivalents but at this point they still aren't quite there as far as I can see.

I use sbase also and it looks nice.
But sbase is unable to produce a report with subtotals and unfortunately that's what I need.
In fact the only sql function in a report (or query) which can be defined is 'count'. (not very exciting)

There is a GTK2 product that uses Sqlite3, looks good for Puppy, but it didn't work when I tried it -- but I might have done something wrong.
I can't remember its name, but I did discuss it a couple of months ago on this forum.

Excuse me for butting in here. Has everyone forgotten that Puppy already has a good database? SQLite3 can be used in Puppy from the terminal, puppybasic, murgalua, perl, etc. If you want a GUI database manager there is TkSQLite. GUI forms can be created with tcl/tk, gins, puppybasic, gtk and others. A basic html report engine should be relatively easy to code with any of these languages. What more do you need?

Excuse me for butting in here. Has everyone forgotten that Puppy already has a good database? SQLite3 can be used in Puppy from the terminal, puppybasic, murgalua, perl, etc. If you want a GUI database manager there is TkSQLite. GUI forms can be created with tcl/tk, gins, puppybasic, gtk and others. A basic html report engine should be relatively easy to code with any of these languages. What more do you need?

Hi Komodo,

What I need, and I guess most of the Puppy users I deal with need, is to have someone create a nice, easy GUI frontend for SQLite3 so we don't have to use tcl/tk, gins, puppybasic, gtk et al to create forms and reports. I'll have a look at TkSQLite, but if it doesn't have those features out-of-the-box then it won't be enough for the average user.

Anyone who can come up with such a simple, easy-to-use and small DBMS for Puppy will be doing the whole community a HUGE favor IMHO. _________________Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't!
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